Organizations Filed Purposes:
The Durango Arts Center ("DAC") enriches the community through innovative visual and performing art, and arts education. DAC advances appreciation and participation in th earts as a cultural leader in the region.
DACs Community Theater welcomed an estimated 6,200 patrons to the 2019 Theatre Season of two adult-cast productions, six youth cast and the 10-Minute Play Festival. The Theater also served as a venue for 63 organizations, businesses and community members through year-round rental events. DAC fulfilled over 100 registrations in each show and distributed $8,304 in scholarship support for students ages 5-17 attending the DAC Applause program, a year-round curriculum celebrating musical and non-musical theatre. Over 70 registrations were fulfilled for adult theatre workshops.
DAC Visual Arts Education fulfilled over 882 registrations across the adult, youth and children's workshops and camps serving ages 5 and up, and distributed over $8,274 in scholarship aid. Key programs include After School Art, a longstanding partnership with Durango School District 9R; Girls Opportunities through Arts and Leadership (GOAL), which focuses on confidence and skill-building for middle school girls; DAC Docents shared numerous free art history sessions to area schools and community centers engaging over 1,400 elementary children and senior adults in learning about and making art; and Creativity Festivity - a 25-year partnership with Durango 9R that celebrates art and artists of our local schools. Creativity Festivity spans two weeks in late spring, and features an exhibit of 1,500 pieces of artwork by kindergarten through 12th grade students, a high school poetry slam and a theatrical performance produced by students of the Applause program. Total audience engagement is estimated at 4,000 community members for this event.
DAC coordinates between over 20 exhibits per year in three onsite gallery spaces, as well as occasional offsite exhibits throughout the community. To enhance the visual arts experience, DAC coordinates educational opportunities to coincide with exhibits, such as lectures/panel discussions, artist demonstrations, workshops or film screenings. In addition to sales and exhibit fees for juried shows, the exhibits program was supported by $9,461 in corporate sponsorships, individual donations and grants.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Brenda Macon | Executive Dir. | 40 | $61,375 |
| Kenneth Duncan | Director | 4 | $0 |
| Jonas Grushkin | Director | 4 | $0 |
| Jesse Bopp | Director | 4 | $0 |
| Lesley Meiering | Director | 4 | $0 |
| Susan Hupp | Director | 4 | $0 |
| Hunter Johnson | Secretary | 4 | $0 |
| John Lopez | Treasurer | 4 | $0 |
| Jennifer Bayer | Vice President | 4 | $0 |
| Mike Scieszka | President | 8 | $0 |
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